Hi,
Has something gone awry with the Google spam filter lately? For the past few weeks, I'm finding my regular mailings from such places as the NY Times and Netflix in my spam folder. I've been hoping to "train" the filter by selecting "Not Spam" (in the Chrome interface), to no avail. This started happening only in the past couple of months or so; before that, no problem. Any words of wisdom would be welcome. Thanks. Mike -- Mike Friedman [hidden email] http://mikefberkeley.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
Mike,
We've had faculty report this problem as well and when my colleague talked to CSS, he was told there was nothing that could be done. Maybe that's true, but I'm glad that you're reporting the same issue. I'd be interested in if others are experiencing the same thing and just haven't reported it. I only just started to look into my SPAM folder and like you, the NYTimes is ending up there among others that never used to end up there even though I have tried to denote it as "not spam". Beth On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mike Friedman <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi, *********************************************** Beth Muramoto Computer Resource Specialist Graduate School of Education University of California, Berkeley 1650 Tolman Hall Berkeley, CA 94720 Email: mailto:[hidden email] Phone: <a href="tel:%28510%29%20643-0203" value="+15106430203" target="_blank">(510) 643-0203 Fax: <a href="tel:%28510%29%20643-6239" value="+15106436239" target="_blank">(510) 643-6239 “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in – forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” -Emerson This is the essence of forgiveness. You can't change what happened but you can make sure it doesn't have the power to prevent you from being happy tomorrow. -Paul Boese “Kind words do not cost much yet they accomplish much.” -Blaise Pascal *********************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
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I've been experiencing that too. Mail from normal, mainstream companies with whom I have an ongoing business relationship gets sent to spam. I also have been trying to train the filter by clicking on "Not Spam". I've tried doing the recommended thing of adding the sender to my Contacts, which I often have to do manually, because when I click on the triangle next to Reply, the drop-down doesn't even offer than choice, as though they've firmly decided for me that this mail isn't interesting. Recently I've escalated to marking such mail "Important" and opening it and clicking on a few links, just to prove it's interesting. Still doesn't work. And yes, this is just the last couple of months. Eric EichornOn Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mike Friedman <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
Although it's not an ideal solution, for particular senders you can
use More->Filter messages like these, select appropriate criteria for the sender, and then in the second screen for setting a filter use the option, "Never send it to Spam." I would hope that Google learns from filters of that sort as it does from "Not spam" marking, but at the very least it should protect your own desired messages. For the little it's worth, although in my experience the filters aren't perfect their accuracy hasn't changed noticeably lately nor have any of the faculty or staff in History of Art reported similar problems to me. John On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Eric H. EICHORN <[hidden email]> wrote in part: > I've been experiencing that too. Mail from normal, mainstream companies with > whom I have an ongoing business relationship gets sent to spam. I also have > been trying to train the filter by clicking on "Not Spam".... > > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mike Friedman <[hidden email]> wrote in part: >> >> Has something gone awry with the Google spam filter lately? For the >> past few weeks, I'm finding my regular mailings from such places as the >> NY Times and Netflix in my spam folder.... -- John McChesney-Young, Administrative Assistant History of Art Department, 416 Doe MC6020 U. C. Berkeley, Berkeley CA 94720-6020 [hidden email] // voice 1-510-642-5511 // fax 1-510-643-2185 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
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This is an ongoing problem, but it seems to have worsened recently.
Goolge's algorithm for determining what is spam is fundamentally flawed; it depends on users teaching it what is and is not spam. Users will mark anything they don't want as spam regardless of whether it is something they subscribed to. Many users never check their spam box, precluding them from teaching Google what is not spam. I checked my spam box just now. There were five messages, four of which were not spam, including one from Conexis, a UC benefits provider. These false positives are a real problem; the only solution is to check your spam box regularly, which is something most users won't do. Seth On 10/23/2015 1:33 PM, Mike Friedman wrote: > Hi, > > Has something gone awry with the Google spam filter lately? For the > past few weeks, I'm finding my regular mailings from such places as the > NY Times and Netflix in my spam folder. I've been hoping to "train" the > filter by selecting "Not Spam" (in the Chrome interface), to no avail. > This started happening only in the past couple of months or so; before > that, no problem. > > Any words of wisdom would be welcome. > > Thanks. > > Mike > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
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Hi Mike, Just wanted to reply to you and the others that the bConnected team has received a few reports of this beginning recently and the team is actively following up w other universities & has escalated with Google. We will work with CSS to make sure they let others know this is a known issue. Once we get some details, we can share them back here as well. -Bill On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Mike Friedman <[hidden email]> wrote: Hi, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
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I have a worse example. The notifications I used to get
from the Contra Costa County Library appear to be getting dropped all together! They don't even show up in my Spam folder. I contacted the library and they show log entries of the email being received by Google so it doesn't look like the library's fault. Jon Forrest UCB (ret.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
This was happening with mail from our Drupal site on Pantheon until we
changed the SMTP server configuration. (Our WordPress mails all go into the spam box, but at least they are not being deleted.) Seth On 10/23/2015 2:30 PM, Jon Forrest wrote: > I have a worse example. The notifications I used to get > from the Contra Costa County Library appear to be getting > dropped all together! They don't even show up in my > Spam folder. I contacted the library and they show log > entries of the email being received by Google so it > doesn't look like the library's fault. > > Jon Forrest > UCB (ret.) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: > > To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: > > http://micronet.berkeley.edu > > Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. > > ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. -- Seth Novogrodsky Department of Economics and College of Letters & Science ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
I also have had users reporting this problem, sometimes even with messages from @berkeley.edu messages. I was told to tell the users train the filter. -Roger ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
Putting my Friday afternoon hat on... one would expect that there would be an enterprise white list for an enterprise system. It used to be irritating when someone stopped by to ask if I'd 'seen their email' five minutes after they sent it. Now it may be an essential precaution! Though being able to say that the spam filter ate my homework might be attractive in some circumstances. Graham On 10/23/15 3:20 PM, Roger E EMOND wrote: > I also have had users reporting this problem, sometimes even with > messages from @berkeley.edu <http://berkeley.edu> messages. I was told > to tell the users train the filter. -Roger > -- Graham Patterson, Systems Administrator Rm 111, Lawrence Hall of Science, UC Berkeley 510-643-1984 "...past the iguana, the tyrannosaurus, the mastodon, the mathematical puzzles, and the meteorite..." - used to be the directions to my office. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following was automatically added to this message by the list server: To learn more about Micronet, including how to subscribe to or unsubscribe from its mailing list and how to find out about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site: http://micronet.berkeley.edu Messages you send to this mailing list are public and world-viewable, and the list's archives can be browsed and searched on the Internet. This means these messages can be viewed by (among others) your bosses, prospective employers, and people who have known you in the past. ANNOUNCEMENTS: To send announcements to the Micronet list, please use the [hidden email] list. |
I had this problem two years ago when emails from my students and the instructor I was GSI'ing for was going to spam. This was when Berkeley switched to Gmail and as I was forwarding all Berkeley email to my main address I had no opportunity to check my spam folder. My solution for myself was to disable Gmail spam filter. You can do it by searching for something that would match all incoming mail (such as the @ symbol in From: header) and specify for all matching email to never be sent to spam. Not the perfect solution, but for me, not missing important emails was more important than not having to hit delete on occasional spam. On Oct 23, 2015 3:28 PM, "Graham Patterson" <[hidden email]> wrote:
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